Symplectic Homogenization

DOI10.5802/JEP.214arXiv0801.0206MaRDI QIDQ6207972FDOQ6207972

Claude Viterbo

Publication date: 31 December 2007

Abstract: Let $H(q,p)$ be a Hamiltonian on $T^{*}{T}^n$. We show that the sequence $H_k(q,p)=H(kq,p)$ converges for the $gamma$ topology defined by the author, to $$. This is extended to the case where only some of the variables are homogenized, that is the sequence $H(kx,y,q,p)$ where the limit is of the type $$ and thus yields an "effective Hamiltonian". We give here the proof of the convergence, and the first properties of the homogenization operator, and give some immediate consequences for solutions of Hamilton-Jacobi equations, construction of quasi-states, etc. We also prove that the function $$ coincides with Mather's $alpha$ function which gives a new proof of its symplectic invariance proved by P. Bernard. A previous version of this paper relied on the former "On the capacity of Lagrangians in $T^{*}{T}^n$ which has been withdrawn. The present version of Symplectic Homogenization does not rely on it anymore.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hamilton-Jacobi equations (35F21) Viscosity solutions to Hamilton-Jacobi equations in optimal control and differential games (49L25) Global theory of symplectic and contact manifolds (53D35) Symplectic and contact topology in high or arbitrary dimension (57R17) General theory of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems, Hamiltonian and Lagrangian structures, symmetries, invariants (37J06) Relations of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems with topology, geometry and differential geometry (symplectic geometry, Poisson geometry, etc.) (37J39) Nonautonomous Hamiltonian dynamical systems (Painlevé equations, etc.) (37J65) Symplectic structures in 4 dimensions (57K43)

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